Surveillance Capitalism and Yarvinism

This research examines the intersections between surveillance capitalism and Yarvinism as converging frameworks that illuminate the emergence of a new paradigm of digital governance. It argues that data accumulation and the technocratic logic of control have produced a hybrid system where economic and political authority are embedded within algorithmic infrastructures capable of regulating information, behavior, and decision-making. This model, arising from technological convergence, redefines sovereignty, legitimacy, and public deliberation by replacing political representation with computational efficiency. The findings reveal the rise of algocracy as a structural form of power in the twenty-first century and emphasize the need to develop frameworks that align democratic oversight with the preservation of human autonomy in the face of automated decision systems.